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A Senior officer in the R.A.F. who served as a Royal Flying Corp pilot and squadron commander during WW1. When WW2 began he was Air Officer Commanding No. 12 Fighter Group responsible for aerial defence of the Midlands, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and North Wales. After the Battle of Britain he was the commander of No. 11 Fighter Group responsible for defending London and the south-east. In 1942 he became the Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command and in 1943 the Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force responsible for the Allied Invasion of Normandy. |
